Tastes

Not to bad on initial taste but there is a bit of a wrong petrol note going on. After initial hit it fades to nothing pretty quick. Very cheap though.

Honey vanilla and that's about it. It didn't make that much of an impression with me but others in the tasting group seem to like it and the bottle got demolished by the end of the night

Not too bad drop at all. Relatively heavy peat , goes on easy but not too much complexity. Tasted with several mates as part of a flight of whiskeys. definitely prefer it to the legacy version.

Pretty muted dram flavour wise. Malty, woody caramel, mild sherry. Middle of the road taste and high price.

better effort than the Sonoma Rye. definitely get the spiciness coming through nicely. Woody fennel and slight cherry with a caramel base. not one I would drink a whole lot of though.

I'm usually pretty forgiving with Rye based whiskeys but this one really isn't that great. it's got the usual Rye characteristics but it's got a bit of a weird bitter burnt floor polish type plasticy ethanol taste going on.

Really interesting dram. Popcorn and mint make a really different flavour combination. Although a great dram it's not one I personally would drink a lot of due to the mint characteristic. I much preferred the Port Ellen version. Great way to hit the 600th review milestone with a double heading of ghost distilleries!

This is pretty good stuff for Johnnie Walker. Beautiful sweet peat. very lagavullin like...car oil, smokey, waxy. A very complex dram. Slightly shorter on the aftertaste, but still great experience. They didn't skimp on the good stuff.

Nice drop. Butterscotch, bailey, large degee of spicey oak, very slight off-balance in the wood but still good drop.

Ah Tullimore Dew might not not have been my first but it was my staple living in Ireland and one of the drops that made me think hey whiskey isn't to bad. I didn't drink it straight that was another decade before I went down that path. I used to take a hip flask into the pub get a pint of water and drop a dram or two in. Yeah I know cheap but hey mid 20s and very little money was my excuse. Also drinking that much water helped stave off hangovers.... the oddities of youth. Anyhow I saw this and the 18 yr samples and thought ah for nostalgia...not that I drank the aged statements. Mine was the bog std stuff. I like this, brown sugar green apples. Usually I don't like the latter but with the oily spiciness it pulls it off. I'd poured this dram b4 I realised the stir fry had ginger and garlic.. usually a match I stay away from but the dram pulled through and maybe it even complimented or perhaps diminished the components I might not usually like...or maybe its the psychology of nostalgia..